Operation Morning Star on Radio Show Hot Talk 1510
Radio Show on Feb. 5, 1510 AM, the program Total Health Hosted by "Coach K" Rob Kingsburyin Kansas City at 2:15 p.m to talk about Operation Morning Star "Economic Development Program" on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation this summer.
You can listen live, call in with questions, and learn how to help put this program in place by donating monies for purchase of animals and plants for this project. Purchased will be food producing plants, rabbits for meat, poultry for meat and eggs, trout aquaculture, and more. This project will start in one village with the goal of expanding according to resource contributions and participation of the community.
If you could suggest a number of questions that need to be addressed right now, to be discussed on a global level, what would they be? How, or maybe even if, we can achieve (World) Peace? About the future of our children, and how best to prepare them for it? Questions on the climate changes?
Recently, I got the opportunity to vote for just that: the 'The Top 10 Questions in the World Today'. Questions to be discussed during the annual Conversation week, hosted by Conversation Café. Conversation Café, a non-profit and charitable organization, seeks to promote global community, democracy and wisdom through generating open, respectful public conversations. Their Conversation Week (March 24-30) is a means to invite the world to suggest, select and dialogue about the year's most important questions. Nearly 1500 people from 39 countries voted on this year's Top Ten Questions, resulting in the following 10 Questions:
How can we best prepare our children for the future?
What does sustainability look like to you? How do we get there?
How do humans need to adapt to survive the changes predicted for this century?
How do we shift from "Me" to "We" on both the local and global levels?
How can you, as Gandhi said, be the change that you want to see in the world?
What kind of economic structures can best support a shift to sustainable living?
How should we re-invent the political process so that people feel that they have a voice?
What kind of leadership does the world need now?
How can we balance our personal needs with the most pressing needs of our community and the larger world?
What can we do to reduce or eliminate violence in the world?
The questions will be discussed offline as well as through online conversations. You can join or host an offline discussion yourself (more info), or join one of the online conversations hosted at Global Mindshift (here).
Personally, I will try and discuss a number of these questions on this blog, and would really like to encourage you to do the same. Pick any of the questions above, (or add your own favorite) and address them on your own blog. Extend the conversation, and see what we can come up with in the blogosphere. If you let me know, I'll gladly add a link to your post! Or, maybe better yet, if you have any idea how we could promote this week a bit more in the blog community (tags, group projects or whatever), I'd be very interested to know.
I truly believe that the more people think about questions like these, the more we share our thoughts on these issues, the closer we will get to answering them. The closer we will get to shifting from 'Me' to 'We'..
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For pictures and information for the 2008 College of Charleston & Community Blitz Build, February 2-16, click on the link above.
We would like to send a special thanks to the guys of Sol Driven Train, Cary Ann Hearst, Four Legged Productions and The Bridge at 105.5 for making our Mardi Gras concert event such a success!
Charleston Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.
Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual and corporate donors provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. Partner families themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor - "sweat equity" - into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build more houses.
Charleston Habitat for Humanity is the first affiliate in South Carolina to move its partner community towards certification as a 21st Century Challenge Community. While this website contains detailed information on the first-time homebuyer program, specific criteria for the Homeowner Home Rehabilition Program will be posted on the website in Summer 2007. Click here for more information.
The Habitat for Humanity International website contains more information on Habitat's history, mission, volunteer opportunities and contact information for other Habitat affiliates around the world. Habitat for Humanity International has built many houses in America and HFHI seeks to build homes around the world to families in need. American affiliates tithe $4,200 for each home built in America. CHFH sent their first tithe from 28 H House Sponsor First Scots Presbyterian Church to La Ceiba, Honduras.
The American Lung Association is working to save lives through community asthma education, lung research, and smoking prevention and cessation programs. On June 13-15, 2008, the American Lung Association of Maine will conduct the Trek Across Maine, a 180-mile, We start at the mountains of Sunday River Ski Resort in Bethel and finish at the Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine.
This is a fundraising event to raise funds to help in the fight against lung diseases such as asthma, lung cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Please join me in supporting this important work by making a tax deductible contribution to this event. Your contribution will help me to reach my fundraising goal of $750. Any amount you choose to donate will be much appreciated.
Please click HERE and help The American Lung Association reach this goal.
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Seattle man starts 'Gratitude Campaign' to thank soldiers 05:51 PM PDT on Sunday, September 23, 2007
By DEBORAH FELDMAN / KING 5 News
[SEATTLE - What began as a simple idea to say thank you to soldiers he passed on the street, has blossomed into a full scale campaign for Seattlite Scott Truitt.
He says many Americans want to express their gratitude to members of our military, but most aren't really sure how to proceed.
"I think there's a lot of politics wrapped around the military and that can get confusing for a lot of people," he said.
Both Truitt's father and father-in-law spent decades in the military, but even so, he realizes approaching strangers can be a little awkward at times.
"For several years I've been walking up and saying thank you to them when I've see them and sometimes its a really comfortable situation, and sometimes its not so comfortable," he said.
So he decided it would be nice to simply have a gesture to say thank you quickly and comfortably.
"The sign language sign for thank you starts at the chin and we thought geez, if you don't know what this means, you might not take it kindly. And that's certainly not the message we wanted to send," he said.
After a little research, he came up with a new idea.
"The gesture starts with your hand on your heart as if you're about to do the Pledge of Allegiance. And then you just bring the hand down and out in front of you. It actually means thank you from the bottom of my heart," he said.
Truitt hopes his Gratitude Campaign will spread across the country, and says even if soldiers don't know exactly what the gesture means, they'll realize if it originates on the heart, its got to be good.
Truitt hopes his video will continue to be shown at the start of every home Seahawks game this season.]
We ask that the post against genocide contain the following elements:
1. Ask your readers to call or mail the congress and, or, the white house.
2. A link to a cribbed letter (whatever one you like) that people can send and use as talking points. I found this pretty good one on an Oprah site. Who know she was even up on this issue?
Operation Morning Star is a non-profit charitable organization that identifies and focuses on the most important needs of poverty affected Native Americans located on the Cheyenne River, Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Indian Nations.
OMS seeks to addresses the critical need for housing, food, and non-contaminated water due to historical and current economic conditions that are prevalent on these Indian Reservations located in North and South Dakota.
The 90% average unemployment rate and family average annual income of less than $4,000, affects the three poorest Indian Reservations in the United States. Operation Morning Star strives to provide economic development programs that will address these needs by supplying food, propane, and opportunities for employment on a direct basis by use of private, public, business, church, and foundation donations.
Operation Morning Star’s mission is to:Establish a educational and vocational school program for the construction of housing and employing and training Native American youth to both construct and earn an income in so doing and in so doing, provide much needed housing to replace the hundreds of condemned homes that are contaminated with “Black Mold” and are in most cases, sub-standard because of poor construction and the resulting rapid deterioration and dilapidation. Energy efficient, low cost, and ease to construct Geodesic dome truss design homes will be constructed to replace these homes and will also be marketed to off reservation entities, providing employment for Native American youth on a continual basis, as well as continue to provide needed homes to elders, families and the homeless.
Operation Morning Star will work put in place water production systems that will produce water that is safe and healthy to drink. This system eliminates cancer causing contaminates found in water sources throughout Indian Reservations and which are known to contain cancer causing agents which contribute to the 800% above the national average cancer rate found among Native Americans in North and South Dakota. Bottled water, using this system, will be made available to Tribal members and bottled water plants will be put in place to generate revenues and jobs for Reservation Residents. Marketing bottled water outside the Reservation will be a part of the strategy to maintain the water production systems on the reservations
Operation Morning Star’s mission also includes the restoration and implementation of food production programs that focus on traditional foods such as the raising of deer and elk herds and increasing the population of buffalo herds. These are part of the Native American culture. Operation Morning Star will also put in place “aqua-ponic” food and fish systems for families in need and will provide fish and vegetables for a family of four year round. Marketing deer, elk, and buffalo will also provide an income source to those working to sustain these programs.
Operation Morning Star will also continue to solicit for and distribute needed food, monies, and other needed items that are directly donated to the families in need using the media, grants, fund-raising events, direct mailing, and educational program.
"The film was directed by sisters Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners. They state, “We made this film as call to action, especially to young people. They are the ones who have the power to reshape the future. We must begin now.” They have established, www.the11thhouraction.com,as a place for people to gather and effect change."
"Leonardo DiCaprio's “The 11th Hour” is a feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and their impact on the planet. "The 11th Hour" documents the cumulative impact of these actions upon the planet's life systems and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity. With the help of over fifty of the world's most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, “The 11thHour" documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed, and their causes rooted in human activity. The combination of these crises call into question the very future not of the planet, but of humanity.
However, the most powerful element of “The 11th Hour” is not a portrait of a planet in crisis, but the offering of hope and solutions. Scientists and environmental advocates such as David Orr and Gloria Flora (note: these names can be interchanged for any of the experts) paint a portrait for a radically new and exciting future in which humanity seeks not to dominate the earth's life systems, but to mimic them and coexist. “The 11th Hour" calls for a future."
"The 11th Hour” will be released in New York and Los Angeles on August 17th and then begin wider national release on August 24th."
Access to clean drinking water is critical for human survival and is an essential ingredient for improving the lives of those living in poverty in developing countries. And yet:
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Water-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the world, taking the lives of 6,000 people a day, and are responsible for 80 percent of all sickness in the world.
40 billion hours are lost annually to hauling water, a chore primarily undertaken by women and girls.
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